緯 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wěi

woof

纬 (緯) wěi

latitude noun: the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator; 赤道是零度纬线。

chìdào shì líng dù wěi xiàn.

The equator is the zero-degree line of latitude.

woof noun: the horizontal threads in a woven fabric, also known as the weft; 经纬交织，方能成布。

jīngwěi jiāozhī, fāng néng chéng bù.

Only by interlacing the warp and the weft can cloth be made.

Frequency

Character

Written text: 2,697th most common 14.9 per million
Movie subtitles: 3,147th most common 2.78 per million appears in 1% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text: 4.75 per million

Details

Simplified: 纬
Strokes: 15
Unicode: U+7DEF

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)